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...many a Deep South city, a mayor who addresses Negro gatherings as "Ladies and Gentlemen," who puts Negroes on the police force and orders the Parks Department to let Negroes play golf on municipal courses, could be listed as a potential political suicide. Atlanta's Mayor William Berry Hartsfield has done all these things-and many more like them. He ordered city employees to use "Dear Mr. Jones" instead of "Dear Jim" in answering letters from Negroes. In 1951 he approved of a national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Atlanta, furnished...
...Hartsfield keeps winning elections because of special qualities-both his and Atlanta's. He is a shrewd political showman, rarely misses the chance to make a speech, once delighted his audience by conducting a symphony orchestra with a Confederate flag. He is also an able administrator who gets a lot of public works built and yet manages to keep his budgets balanced. Thriving Atlanta, thickly infiltrated with migrants from the North, is still a Jim Crow city, but is on the whole ashamed of the violent racial prejudice that is the stock in trade of such wool-hat-minded...
Lumberman Livermore unwinds on ski and pack trips in the Sierras each year, and, like him, the best-relaxed men turn to noncompetitive activities -fishing, swimming, horseback riding, birdwatching. Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield is a spare-time rockhound (amateur geologist). Delta Air Lines President C. E. Woolman raises $100-a-plant pedigreed orchids. World Publishing Co. President Benjamin D. Zevin finds lawn-mowing relaxing because "I know there's a hired man to do it if I don't want...
...have but two alternatives," Mayor Hartsfield said, "to comply with the court order, or close down and cease operation of our golf courses...
...Atlanta, Mayor William Berry Hartsfield last week instructed the Parks Department to obey a recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, Nov. 21) and open the city's seven municipal golf courses to Negroes...